nScrypt Develops Solution for Printing Metals

nScrypt Inc. is now developing a metals printing solution. Using its advanced, high-precision Micro-Dispensing capabilities, nScrypt is aiming to provide repeatable and fine-featured metal parts to the aerospace, defense, and medical industries.

Building on its 2011 work in 3D printing metal parts in silver, nScrypt has developed a proprietary method for 3D printing titanium (Ti6Al4V) parts. Initial tests show exceptional densities of titanium coupons, with strengths in line with wrought titanium.
nScrypt’s proprietary process can be easily expanded to other metals, including stainless steels, Inconel, and copper, to provide unique solutions to a diverse range of industries. Additionally, nScrypt’s Factory in a Tool (FiT) systems have an integrated precision milling head (nScrypt’s nMill) to perform finishing or polishing routines on critical areas of the part, with extremely high tolerance features, down to 2 microns (.00008”).

“Our customers want to be able to 3D print metal parts in the same machine that mills them, without tool changes, and to do it without a powder bed, which is our Factory in a Tool,” nScrypt CEO Dr. Ken Church said. “These titanium parts prove that concept.”